Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank all of the witnesses for sharing their stories and congratulate them on their successes. I listened to the point on having experience in an office and knowing one definitely did not want to work there. My first summer job was picking strawberries at home in Wexford. That assured me I did not want to have anything to do with horticulture or anything like that.

In respect of apprenticeships, there are huge technological changes. Skills that apprentices are acquiring now may be redundant in five years' time and in ten years' time things may be completely different. Do the apprenticeship models we have prepare people sufficiently to deal with some of those technological changes?